Late-night hosts on Tuesday discussed the cancellation of the hit sitcom Roseanne after its namesake star posted a racist tweet comparing Valerie Jarrett, the African American former adviser to Barack Obama, to an ape.

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Trevor Noah

“We were off for a week and it is really so great to be back on the air,” Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah began. “We got the British remake of Get Out. God himself got #MeToo’d. The North Korea summit crashed harder than Solo. Harvey Weinstein got to live out his handcuff fantasy. And the NFL announced that players are welcome to publicly protest, as long as they do it in private.”

“That’s right, Roseanne’s show’s cancelled because she tweeted out racist stuff,” Noah continued. “You know who I blame for this? Donald Trump, that’s who. He makes all of his supporters think they’re as impervious as he is.”

“But it’s not the same for everyone else,” Noah added. “It’s like he’s superman telling normal people to follow his lead.”

Jimmy Kimmel

Meanwhile, ABC’s own Jimmy Kimmel discussed Roseanne and his own network’s response to her behavior.

“While we’re on the subject of terrible things posted online today, the biggest story of the day today was Roseanne,” Kimmel said.

“You’re not going to believe this,” the host added, sarcastically, “but she tweeted something outrageous. I know. The president did it, too. It’s crazy.”

Kimmel went on: “ABC decided to cancel their highest-rated show, Roseanne, following a tweet in which Roseanne compared an African American woman, a former adviser to president Obama, to an ape, which did not sit well with ABC management or anyone with a brain.”

The host then explained that pulling the plug on Roseanne, which just recently finished the first season of its reboot, and its 10th overall, “is a huge blow to business”.

“We don’t have much on this network,” Kimmel joked. “We’re hoping the NBA finals goes 11 games this year. We’re still airing America’s funniest home videos.”

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“Roseanne was very bigly hit for ABC,” he continued. “Hear me out: just because Roseanne is gone, doesn’t mean the whole show has to go. The show must go on, that’s what we say in show business.”

“With that said, I have an idea that I think makes this work for everyone,” the host concluded, before airing a mock advertisement for Dan, a sitcom featuring all the Roseanne characters, except Roseanne, and starring her husband Dan Connor, played by John Goodman.